RE: QINACTITV on TELNET sessions?

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

At 09:35 PM 11/8/97 +0500, you wrote:
<snip>
>
>On a related note, we are just switching to the dreaded NT desktops and
>are using the Client Access 5250 emulator over Telnet. The sessions are
>not timing out after they reach the Telnet inactivity timeout limit. Has
>anyone else experienced this, and do they know why? The Rumba sessions
>under Win 3.1 always used to timeout correctly.


This is sort of an odd bird, but if you set the telnet inactivity
(INACTTIMO) to a value greater than 600 seconds, it _appears_ not to work.
That's because the parameter just below INACTTIMO on the CHGTELNA command,
TIMMRKTIMO causes the /400 to send a 'keep alive' message to the telnet
partner every 600 seconds (the default).  That keep alive message seams to
cause the telnet INACTTIMO interval to get reset.

If you set INACTTIMO value to, say 3600, and then the TIMMRKTIMO value to
something greater than 3600, your telnet sessions will time-out.

They time-out ugly though.  Instead of reverting to the signon screen, my
Rumba sessions go blank with the curser at 1/2.  A simple disconnet and
reconnect causes a signon screen to reappear.

hth,

jte



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